People's Defense Forces Press Centre (HPG-BIM) released a statement providing details about an operation HPG and YBS (Sinjar Resistance Units) have carried out against the ISIS gangs deployed in the Solak area to the east of Mount Sinjar on 1 November.

HPG-BIM said that a number of gang members were killed or wounded and large quantities of ammunition belonging to them were seized in the offensive.

Munitions seized by HPG and YBS forces include a rocket launcher made by gangs, mortar shells, missiles, hundreds of arms, hand grenades and mines.